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25 percent. The Roman Empire in 180 AD. The Antonine Plague of AD 165 to 180, also known as the Plague of Galen (after Galen, the Greek physician who described it), was a prolonged and destructive epidemic, [1] which impacted the Roman Empire. It was possibly contracted and spread by soldiers who were returning from campaign in the Near East.
The Peloponnesian War ( Ancient Greek: Πόλεμος τῶν Πελοποννησίων, romanized : Pólemos tō̃n Peloponnēsíōn) (431–404 BC) was an ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies for the hegemony of the Greek world.
In 430 BC, a plague struck the city of Athens, which was then under siege by Sparta during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC). In the next 3 years, most of the population was infected, and perhaps as many as 75,000 to 100,000 people, 25% of the city's population, died.
Jan 25, 2006 · More than 2,000 years ago, a plague gripped the Greek city of Athens. Ultimately, as much as a third of the population succumbed and the devastation, which helped Sparta gain the upper hand in the ...
Plague was present in at least one location in the Islamic world virtually every year between 1500 and 1850. [56] Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30,000–50,000 to it in 1620–1621, and again in 1654–1657, 1665, 1691, and 1740–1742. [57]
아테네 역병 ( 헬라어: Λοιμός τῶν Ἀθηνῶν Loimos tôn Athênôn; 영어: Plague of Athens)은 펠로폰네소스 전쟁 (기원전 430년) 2년차에 아테네의 승리가 눈 앞에 있을 때 아테네 국가 자체를 황폐화 시켰던 전염병이다. 이 전염병으로 인해 약 75,000명에서 100,000명이 ...
Died. 430 BC (aged c. 11) Athens. Body discovered. 1994–95. Myrtis' reconstructed appearance, National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Myrtis is the name given by archaeologists to an 11-year-old girl from ancient Athens, whose remains were discovered in 1994–95 in a mass grave during work to build the metro station at Kerameikos, Greece. [1]
